Devaluation, competitiveness and new business formation in emerging countries

dc.contributor.authorHerrera-Echeverri, Hernán
dc.contributor.authorHaar, Jerry
dc.contributor.authorArrieta Jiménez, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorAraújo Zapata, Manuel
dc.coverage.spatialMedellín de: Lat: 06 15 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 6.2500 decimal degrees Long: 075 36 00 W degrees minutes Long: -75.6000 decimal degreeseng
dc.creator.emailmaraujo1@eafit.edu.cospa
dc.creator.emailaarrieta@eafit.edu.cospa
dc.creator.emailhherrer2@eafit.edu.cospa
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-11T23:45:32Z
dc.date.available2016-06-11T23:45:32Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-02
dc.description.abstractIn September 2010, Brazil’s Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, used the term “currency war” with reference to monetary policies implemented by different countries to generate an artificial devaluation of their currency and achieve a cheaper, more competitive domestic economy that may be attractive to foreign investors. Similar cases have been documented since the 1930s Great Depression, when several countries abandoned the gold standard as backing for their currencies. More recently, a large-scale asset purchase by Japan’s Central Bank in 2013 was singled out as a strategy aimed at generating devaluation of the yen. This research uses statistics of new business formation density reported by Doing Business for 30 emerging countries in the period 2004-2011 to evaluate the impact of devaluation measured by the behavior of the real effective exchange rate (REER) on the rate of new business formation (NBF). It is determined how variables associated with competitiveness affect the relationship between devaluation and business formation. Results show that devaluation has a positive effect on NBF in the short term, which gets diluted in the long term. Countries with greater competitiveness have less dependence on devaluation to increase the number of businesses.eng
dc.identifier.jelG18
dc.identifier.jelG24
dc.identifier.jelM13
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/8565
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherUniversidad EAFITspa
dc.publisher.departmentEscuela de Economía y Finanzasspa
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesseng
dc.rights.localAcceso abiertospa
dc.subject.keywordNew business formationspa
dc.subject.keywordemerging countriesspa
dc.subject.keyworddevaluationspa
dc.subject.keywordcompetitivenessspa
dc.titleDevaluation, competitiveness and new business formation in emerging countrieseng
dc.typeworkingPapereng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPapereng
dc.type.hasVersiondrafteng
dc.type.localDocumento de trabajo de investigaciónspa

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